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I am trying out the new Microsoft Visual Studio Code editor in Linux Fedora environment. I would like to know how to replace new line (\n) in place of some other text.
For example, I have html text like this
<tag><tag>
which I would like to replace as
<tag>
<tag>
In sublime I would use regex pattern and find "><" and replace with ">\n<" How do I accomplish this in Visual Studio Code?
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Select the cells that you want to search. On the keyboard, press Ctrl + H to open the Find and Replace dialog box, with the Replace tab active. On the Replace tab, click in the Find What box. On the keyboard, press Ctrl + J to enter the line break character.
Find and Replace# VS Code allows you to quickly find text and replace in the currently opened file. Press Ctrl+F to open the Find Widget in the editor, search results will be highlighted in the editor, overview ruler and minimap.
For Windows, Pressing Alt+Z will break the line.
AFAIK there is no way to visually see line endings in the editor space, but in the bottom-right corner of the window there is an indicator that says "CLRF" or "LF" which will let you set the line endings for a particular file. Clicking on the text will allow you to change the line endings as well.
In the local searchbox (ctrl + f) you can insert newlines by pressing ctrl + enter.
If you use the global search (ctrl + shift + f) you can insert newlines by pressing shift + enter.
If you want to search for multilines by the character literal, remember to check the rightmost regex icon.
In previous versions of Visual Studio code this was difficult or impossible. Older versions require you to use the regex mode, older versions yet did not support newline search whatsoever.
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With VS Code release 1.38 you can press CTRL + Enter in the editor find box to add a newline character.
With VS Code release 1.30 you can type Shift + Enter in the search box to add a newline character without needing to use regex mode.
Since VS Code release 1.3, the regex find has supported newline characters. To use this feature set the find window to regex mode and use \n as the newline character.
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In version 1.1.1:
.*
><
>\n<
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Also note, after hitting the regex icon, to actually replace \n text with a newline, I had to use \\n as search and \n as replace.
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>< by >\n< with Regular Expressions enabled
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A possible workaround would be to use the multi-cursor. select the >< part of your example use Ctrl+Shift+L or select all occurrences. Then use the arrow keys to move all the cursors between the tags and press enter to insert a newline everywhere.
This won't work in all situations.
You can also use Ctrl+D for select next match, which adds the next match to the selection and adds a cursor. And use Ctrl+K Ctrl+D to skip a selection.
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On my mac version of VS Code, I select the section, then the shortcut is Ctrl+j to remove line breaks.
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CTRL + H, then select regex (*) and write \n
Shorter version: CTRL+H ALT+R \n
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with v1.31.1 in RegEx mode the Replace All functionality is broken. clicking that button replaces only one instance
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